While I've seen this in other homes, I come from a traditional West Indian household where it doesn't matter who you are- if you mess up academically, financially, or such the like you have a high chance of ending up kicked out and ostracized (sp?).
Both systems are flawed.

The FundaMentalz...Language Arts
Marietta (ATL), GA.

"And herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor,-all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked,-who is good? Not that men are ignorant, -what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men."
W.E.B. Dubois